A new smartphone app that monitors patients suffering from chronic cardiopulmonary diseases by analysing the way they walk can warn doctors at the first sign of trouble. Using the health-tracking app, MoveSense, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a patient’s oxygen saturation level can be passively monitored with medical accuracy. Oxygen…
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar and IIT, Bhubaneswar have joined hands to develop a series of e-Health technologies that can radically alter healthcare services delivery systems in Odisha and the country. The premier institutions have set about developing an e-Clinic kiosk that can establish early health warning systems, predicting disease patterns…
Telangana government has embarked on ‘e-arogyam’, an online e-medicine centre in all the government hospitals. The main aim of this programme is to provide quality healthcare services to poor patients in the rural areas. As part of government’s initiative to provide high quality healthcare services to the poor patients and to improve the existing healthcare…
To Inform, Educate & Engage citizens across the country, Digital India Week, from 1stJuly to 7th July, 2015 has been observed all over India. In thisweek, multiple and varied events and activities took place at all the levels. Starting from the National level event, launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister,events were conducted at State and District…
The MoU will come into effect from June5 2015, and will remain effective for a period of three years NATHEALTH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Task Force Health Care (TFHC) Working Group India in the presence of The Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte. Dutch Ministers Lilianne Ploumen – Foreign Trade…
As part of Digital India programme, Kerala Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty will launch various e-governance initiatives, including ‘Digital Kerala’ by the State Government, here tomorrow.As part of the launch of the ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme, a programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy, a week-long celebration is being…
With the Centre willing to rewrite the rules related to sale of prescription drugs, the decks are being cleared for their online sales. In an industry meeting in New Delhi on June 17, Dr. G.N. Singh, the Drugs Controller General (India), said thepharmaceutical industry needs a new regulatory framework to bring e-pharmacy under its ambit.…
BSNL has been given the responsibility of Digital India project in Bihar and 16 other states. India has been divided into two parts, one which has the internet facility and the other lacking it. This digital divide has to be removed by laying optical fibre in every panchayat to provide broadband connectivity to rural India,…
The Telangana government is going to launch the eHealth Initiative on a pilot basis at Jadcherla in Mahabubnagar district on Tuesday. Minister for IT and Communications K T Rama Rao will inaugurate the initiative along with Minister for Health Dr C Laxma Reddy. The basic idea is to connect the peripheral hospital with main district…
To connect villages with digital world, Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), under Centre’s ‘Digital India’ project, is laying optical fibre cables in 335 gram panchayats in Indore division, said director BBNL (MP/CG), Ratan Ghosh at a press conference on Tuesday. Ghosh, while talking to media, said national optical fibre network, also named as ‘BharatNet’, is…